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Giant pandas, who have recently acquired their herbivorous lifestyle, maintain a complicated food habit over the year, eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season thus procure adequate levels of essential nutrients.A. eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season thus procureB. eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, they procureC. eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, and thus procureD. eat different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, procuringE. eat different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, and thus procure

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07 Jul 2017, 05:10

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Giant pandas, who have recently acquired their herbivorous lifestyle, maintain a complicated food habit over the year, eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season thus procure adequate levels of essential nutrients.A. eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season thus procureB. eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, they procureC. eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, and thus procureD. eat different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, procuringE. eat different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, and thus procure

A. Run-on

We need a comma and a connector before "thus" to make a complete sentence.

B. Run-on

The comma before "they" is NOT sufficient to connect 2 clauses.

D. Changes intended meaning.

2 actions, "maintain..." and "eat...", are NOT independent. These two are related, so we need "eating" to modify "maintain..."

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07 Jul 2017, 05:13

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Giant pandas, who have recently acquired their herbivorous lifestyle, maintain a complicated food habit over the year, eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season thus procure adequate levels of essential nutrients.A. eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season thus procureB. eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, they procureC. eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, and thus procureD. eat different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, procuringE. eat different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, and thus procure

A - "eating.... season" the modifier is fine but the problem lies with "thus procure". No conjunction connecting the 2 clauses, hence this one is out.B - Missing conjunction 'and' as the main clause is "Giant Pandas maintain....."_______ "they procure...". This is out.C - Giant pandas maintain....... and thus procure.... (Correct)D - makes "eat different parts...." into a list with "maintain a complicated....year" whereas the sentence is trying to say Giant Pandas maintain a complicated food habit, (how?) by eating 2 different..... season, (result) and thus "procure....nutrients."E - Same as D ; Makes eat different parts into a list with maintain ; so shifts the meaning.

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07 Jul 2017, 05:30

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haardiksharma wrote:

Can someone explain error in Dalso what is subject to the second clause after and and how do we find if that is an independent clause or dependent clause?

Hi,

Option C makes a complete sentence like this:

Giant pandas, who have recently acquired their herbivorous lifestyle, maintain a complicated food habit over the year, eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, and thus procure adequate levels of essential nutrients.

Here is the structure of the above sentence:

Subject, 1st modifier, 1st Verb, 2nd modifier, "and thus" 2nd Verb.

- Subject = giant pandas. This is the Subject for BOTH "maintain" and "procure"

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07 Jul 2017, 10:04

A. in each season thus procure....who procure is not clear....B. , they procure....there should be something before they...as a result C correct...D maintain a complicated food habit...the modifier should be eating and not eat.E. maintain a complicated food habit...the modifier should be eating and not eat.

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08 Jul 2017, 10:19

Imo CChoice is a trap for parallelism .Actually the underlined part of the sentence modifies the preceding clause which talks about the pandas's eating habitseating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season], and thus procure.This sentence is also parallel to the main sentence .If you try to answer the question how pandas maintain a complicated food habit over the year we can pretty much arrive at the answer.Also in D we need and to join two verbs .
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Can someone explain error in Dalso what is subject to the second clause after and and how do we find if that is an independent clause or dependent clause?

In D, the two main verbs are "maintain" and "eat". The conjunction "and" is missing between these verbs. In C, there is no second clause after "and" - there are two verbs ("maintain" and "procure") in parallel in ONE clause - the subject of this clause is "Giant Pandas".

can someone explain why E is wrong i was able to reduce it to C and E [#permalink]

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23 Jan 2018, 10:39

Giant pandas, who have recently acquired their herbivorous lifestyle, maintain a complicated food habit over the year, eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season thus procure adequate levels of essential nutrients.A. eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season thus procureB. eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, they procureC. eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, and thus procureD. eat different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, procuringE. eat different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, and thus procure

can someone explain why E is wrong i was able to reduce it to C and E [#permalink]

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Giant pandas, who have recently acquired their herbivorous lifestyle, maintain a complicated food habit over the year, eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season thus procure adequate levels of essential nutrients.A. eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season thus procureB. eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, they procureC. eating different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, and thus procureD. eat different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, procuringE. eat different parts of two bamboo plants in each season, and thus procure

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I think in E, use of "eat" as a separate verb distorts the meaning. In E there are 3 parallel verbs - maintain, eat, and procure. BUT, the original sentence wants to convey only 2 things -

1) they maintain a complicated food habit (ING modifier starting with "eating" provide more details about how they do that; it modifies the verb "maintain") 2) they procure adequate levels of essential nutrients.

This meaning is clear in C. E shows 'eat' as a separate independent action, hence changing the original meaning.

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can someone explain why E is wrong i was able to reduce it to C and E
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